D3 really? I know it isn't some stellar game (mediocre comes to mind) but crap? I don't know if you have been getting into some really good mmo's, lying about playing better mmo's, or just talking crap about the game because it didn't fulfill your wants and desires for what the game could have been.

D3 was quite clearly rushed to release. With the systems they have in place now, I suspect I'd be still playing if it was released this way. Of course, PVP has still not been released. Probably my biggest issue with it was that after completing each difficulty level, you couldn't just freeroam and kill whatever you wanted whenever you wanted to. You were stuck replaying the story chapters/acts. It gets really old after a while. I don't know if they've changed how that works or not.

Anyway, while not really living up to my expectations, I still feel I got enough enjoyment out of it to justify the money I paid for it. It might not have been as great a $/hr value as some other games but I don't think the final product was so poor as to rate it "crap" unless you're using one of those fancy rating scales where 9.0-10.0 is good-awesome, and 0.0-8.9 is crap.

Well they'd be awfully stupid not to have a plan in place. All it takes is a glance at the mess Bioware/EA made switching TOR to F2P to see that. I just don't think they'll successfully be able to bring the feel of an Elder Scrolls game to a MMO. I imagine it'll just end up being generic high fantasy MMO #27.

Nice write-up on the front page. In fact, two nice write-ups. I am intrigued.

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